Infinite bar-joint frameworks, crystals and operator theory

zbMATH Open1241.52010arXiv1009.3954MaRDI QIDQ416752FDOQ416752

Authors: J. C. Owen, S. C. Power 

Publication date: 10 May 2012

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A theory of flexibility and rigidity is developed for general infinite bar-joint frameworks (G,p). Determinations of nondeformability through vanishing flexibility are obtained as well as sufficient conditions for deformability. Forms of infinitesimal flexibility are defined in terms of the operator theory of the associated infinite rigidity matrix R(G,p). The matricial symbol function of an abstract crystal framework is introduced, being the matrix-valued function on the $d$-torus representing R(G,p) as a Hilbert space operator. The symbol function is related to infinitesimal flexibility, deformability and isostaticity. Various generic abstract crystal frameworks which are in Maxwellian equilibrium, such as certain 4-regular planar frameworks, are proven to be square-summably infinitesimally rigid as well as smoothly deformable in infinitely many ways. The symbol function of a three-dimensional crystal framework determines the infinitesimal wave flexes in models for the low energy vibrational modes (RUMs) in material crystals. For crystal frameworks with inversion symmetry it is shown that the RUMS appear in surfaces, generalising a result of F. Wegner for tetrahedral crystals.

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zbMATH Keywords

infinite bar-joint frameworkvanishing flexibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

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